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Automatic Image deployment (Midori) (modified 0 times) Root Profile Hi guys.. I have quite a few of these babies sitting on a local network, and to facilitate future updates and maintainance i would like to be able to update (rewrite) the internal flash remotely from a dedicated server. any ideas as to how i would go about doing this? (i am using midori 3 image). what changes are necessery on the server / client sides? i want only the server to be able to initiate a software update. apreciate your feedback, Root. 08-06-2002 16:45:06

RE:Automatic Image deployment (Midori) (modified 0 times) erroneus Profile Actually, at one time, I discussed the idea of creating a method of downloading images from across a network. As it stands, moving CF cards from machine to machine is a real pain in the butt and a time consumer. One possibility would be if there is some way the image could contain a program that will load itself into memory and then grab the image dumping it straight to the internal CF? Or perhaps a boot mode in the boot-loader could contain code to handle that? Or at the very minimum, have the IA-1 boot primarily off of the external CF and secondarily off of the internal and so you can insert a "download" utility CF card when you're ready to do a download. When it boots, a menu is presented to the user in text mode asking for things like "what's the name of the image?" "where is it located?" "what protocol should I use to get it? (NFS. SMB, TFTP, FTP, HTTP?)" and such stuff like that. I think the "download card" idea would work nicely. That way as you create images, the procedure becomes a bit more simple. "build an image, download an image, reboot to test." 08-07-2002 09:44:29

RE:Automatic Image deployment (Midori) (modified 0 times) RatBastard Profile What about exploiting the midori "remote update host" thing? Here's some docs 08-07-2002 15:44:23

RE:Automatic Image deployment (Midori) (modified 0 times) wa_bacchus Profile | Email i just did it. wget http://www.ia1hacking.com/linux/files/midori_3.img -O /dev/hda or wget http://192.168.0.112/my_new_internal_network_image.img -O /dev/hda or wget ftp://192.168.0.112/yadda.img -O /dev/hda as long as you already have a network connection, and something linux, like midori, its a piece of cake to update. I went from the first W.W.W. midori to number 3 over the internet to ia1hacking (the first example above)... If you are midori gods (i dont like it), you can setup(create yourself, i mean here) a daemon on the ia1 box itself... if it gets a connection with proper password, it instantly cats it to /dev/hda, then reboots... wham, auto-update... -S 08-08-2002 02:06:11

RE:Automatic Image deployment (Midori) (modified 0 times) Root Profile Here is another solution, needs dd and netcat though: http://www.rajeevnet.com/tips_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html now on to getting nc on the image :) .. has anyone installed printing software on midori? Root 08-08-2002 15:52:16

RE:Automatic Image deployment (Midori) (modified 0 times) Particle Profile I've successfully updated the original MSN image using the built-in MSN Companion support tools - i.e. dialed out to the 800 number and pulled down the current MSN image (I can't remember the diagnostic command offhand). It wipes the current image and replaces it with the downloaded image. Has anyone successfully used this to download a Midori or Jailbait image? 08-19-2002 15:48:25

RE:Automatic Image deployment (Midori) (modified 0 times) heitjer Profile | Email There is a thread called "haxing the unhaxable": http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=MSNCompanion&Post=287&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=1&Session= Apparently I was told that this does not work with an image. This can not be used to pull something out the local network because the USB driver are not present. *heitjer* 08-20-2002 19:19:25

RE:Automatic Image deployment (Midori) (modified 0 times) Shane Profile Should still be able to flash the os with a dialup connection since that's exactly what MSN does to upgrade 1.0 units to 2.0. They call their image "clientman"... so if we can get a website setup someplace that can ship us a file on connect using PHP or something then we should be able to directly flash via dialup to an image using the companion's own tools :) 08-26-2002 10:57:23

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